Interesting! The video I saw looked like there were Class III weapons there. Would somebody at the ATF mind telling me how Joe Bob bought those at Happy Fred's gun shop? Seeing how Class III weapons are tightly controlled it makes you wonder. Also, is there any logic in selling Semi-Auto guns to mexicans when Full Auto Machine guns are readily and easily gotten in mexico??It strikes me as another Huturee raid!

"Finall ATF is going after...?" Anonymous 1:45, you're being sarcastic, right? If not, ever heard of Project Gunwalker? You like gun laws that are prima facie unconstitutional? Enforcement that is itself criminal? A "straw purchaser" is nothing but a LEGALLY QUALIFIED buyer.

Ever see " Boss" Hogg in "The Dukes of Hazard"? If yes, then you know who Saxby Chambless of Georgia is.

Really.

No kidding.

Since the "Boss" has no real ideology other than doing whatever it takes to keep living "high on the hog", that is, off the Georgia (and U.S.) taxpayers, then it is entirely possible that Good 'Ole Saxby just might be convinced to DO SOMETHING about the BATFE gun-running. There are no ideological hurtles to overcome. All it would really take is enough Georgians to contact Saxby and let him know that it's time to put in an appearance at work.

As a professional journalist, I would read a claim, then go to as many sources as I could to verify or disprove it. The temptation to cherry-pick resources to validate my own prejudices was strong, but if I had to lie or practice what they called "strategic withholding" in journalism school (and regarded as a valid journalistic technique!), I was doing my readers a disservice. It would presume that they aren't smart enough to make decisions that are best for them.85% of journalists identify themselves as liberal. Those are just the ones who acknowledge that there IS liberalism rather than "left-center superior intelligence."

Yes, Defender is right. Once a legal gun owner has bought his gun, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it, e.g., sell it to a 12 year old who needs it for his 'lunch money requisition project' or to the mentally unstable guy next door who just wants a gun around to keep the wife in line. It's called CAPITALISM! Constitutional rights, my friend. Don't tread on us!!!! And our right to contribute to the destruction of other human beings!!!

It's almost a solid wall of statism, friends. Our essential rights only exist because some obscure old laws GIVING US our rights dreamed up by wig-wearing slaveowners haven't YET been repealed. If it takes KGB-style subterfuge and lies by elected and unelected overseers to whip us into line, they're all for it.

The congressman who died in the shoot-down by Russia of a Korean Airlines plane. The last sittting member of Congress to be murdered. He was very conservative, therefore an unperson to the media. What's the deal? They'd rather piss off 150 million Americans than remind them Russia was Russia, and still is?

Dennis Burke, the U.S. Attorney is a committed leftist. I have been on an email chain with him and it was ugly. 2 of my best buddies went to grade school and high school with him. The whole family is nuts. He was Janet Incompetano's chief of staff and she emplaced him in the US Atty. slot after accepting the DHS nod. So no, he is square, nor hoodwinked, he is a fellow traveller.

"You like gun laws that are prima facie unconstitutional? Enforcement that is itself criminal? A "straw purchaser" is nothing but a LEGALLY QUALIFIED buyer."

As a RESPONSIBLE member of the gun owning public, I've had to defend the fact that I own and collect military style firearms/hi-cap mags after these ASSHOLES are being used as an example as to why YOU AND I shouldn't be allowed to buy/sell these guns anymore.

Personally, if these were folks buying guns to deliver to Mexicans determined to fight back against the cartels, robbers, and kidnappers savaging their communities, I'd generally be OK with that.

To say that a straw purchaser is nothing but a "legally qualified buyer", while technically correct, is epic asshat territory.

Yes, I just called you an asshat.

Come on down to a border gunshop, and see how well they like dealing with hundreds of straw purchaser attempts, knowing that the guns bought by those they miss are going straight to Mexico.

One of my local shops enacted a policy of no multiple semi-auto rifle sales, and won't stock 5.7 pistols/rifles, and Barrett rifles because they get constantly bombarded by blatant straws trying to buy them.

Most of this is Mexico's fault, and I won't tolerate their incompetent leadership blaming me for their social ills caused by decades of corruption, nor will I tolerate our own media doing the same.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.